Tuesday, February 9, 2010

So working part-time at a motorcycle shop gives me a lot of good opportunities to learn the ins and outs of motorcycles. Case in point, I had on-hand reference when drawing this 2006 GSX-R. Every nut and bolt has been lovingly placed, and many motorcycle enthusiasts agree that this is a well represented bike.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I've been working up some T-Shirt designs for a stand up Comedian friend of mine. He's roaming cross-country doing stand-up at places you've never heard of. His "Just Another Hangover Tour" is in the midwest right now.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Saturday, January 23, 2010

In addition to having a part-time job on the regular, I am also apprenticing at a motorcycle shop, experimenting with bodywork, design, and painting techniques.

My current project is redoing the body work for a former race bike. I'm picking up where someone left off, evidently, and I've been spending many days sanding, prepping, & painting this motorcycle to salvage the botched paint job the last guy left.

The motorcycle itself is a 1993 Honda CBR900RR, and the owner asked me to design an eye-catching graphic to really bring out the spirit of the bike. Here's what I was able to come up with. The motorcycle itself is about 80% complete with the basecoat all laid down. We are waiting on more paint to start work on the graphic. You can see on the tail section a mascot girl for the shop and, lord willing, the eventual race team. Hence the name, Consuela.

I'm not usually disposed to reciting syllogisms at length (wait, yes I am), particularly when I feel the need to defend my position, especially when it just seems like I'm making excuses for everything being late or delayed. More often than not, I tend to misprioritize and end up leaving things hanging, the result often being disappointing or downright infuriating. I know in the past this has often led to confused or dissatisfied clients.

Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear: My life is crazy. Period. When it comes to my artwork, nothing pains me more than having too much to do and not enough time to do it properly.

The purpose of keeping this blog is to optimise my workflow a bit, and I thought that keeping track of my ongoing exploits and side projects would help to keep things moving.